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<span class="top">The Book of 3rd John</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.</td>
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